The priests

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The priests
General information
Genre (s) Pop , modern classic
Website universal-music.de
Current occupation
Rhabanus Petri
Vianney master
Andreas Schätzle
Idea and foundation
Notker Wolf
Karl Wallner

Die Priester is a German-speaking singing group made up of three Roman Catholic priests .

history

The abbot primate Notker Wolf and the Cistercian monk Karl Wallner from Heiligenkreuz Abbey developed the project to combine pop music with classical music . Wolf and Wallner had already dealt with this topic, so Wallner was involved in the publication of The Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz .

After a long search, suitable candidates for the new project were found in Father Vianney Meister, the then abbot Rhabanus Petri von Schweiklberg and the Vienna diocesan priest Andreas Schätzle. Their debut album Spiritus Dei was released on October 21, 2011 , on which they reinterpreted works by Handel, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Smetana as well as contemporary titles such as Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen or This Path by Xavier Naidoo . The priests sing mainly in Latin and German.

On September 28, 2012, their second album, Rex Gloriae, was released, which compared to the first album has a slightly more religious edge . Also this time other artists can be heard besides the priests. The speaker Joachim Kerzel speaks texts for three pieces, and the soprano Mojca Erdmann sings a duet.

On February 14, 2013, the priests, together with Mojca Erdmann, took part in Our Song for Malmö with the song Meerstern, be greetings and took 10th place.

The model for Die Priest was Les Prêtres , a singing group from France that tried to combine modern pop music with classical music in a similar way. These in turn were inspired by The Priests from Ireland.

Members

  • Father Vianney Meister OSB is a Benedictine and has lived in the Archabbey of Sankt Ottilien since 1986, where he is the chief cantor of the monks' Schola . He has also been the director of the monastery boarding school since 1994. He plays the trumpet , tuba and guitar . As an experienced singer of Gregorian chant , he has participated in many concerts and recorded several CDs.
  • Andreas Schätzle is a German diocesan priest in Vienna. There he is involved in youth work , for example in the Loretto community . Schätzle studied music and theology. In 1995 he was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Vienna . Since June 1, 2005 he has been the program director of the Christian radio station Radio Maria Austria . Schätzle plays trumpet, guitar and piano and has been writing his own songs for many years. He has already released some of these on the live CD Feuer & Flamme 2005.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Spiritus Dei
  DE 17th 04/11/2011 (20 weeks)
  AT 19th 04/11/2011 (9 weeks)
  CH 14th 11/06/2011 (15 weeks)
Rex gloriae
  DE 30th October 12, 2012 (8 weeks)
  AT 57 October 12, 2012 (4 weeks)
  CH 66 October 28, 2012 (2 weeks)
Salus advenit
  DE 54 11/06/2015 (3 weeks)
May the road
  DE 45 December 08, 2017 (3 weeks)
The best
  DE 63 11/16/2018 (2 weeks)

Albums

  • 2011: Spiritus Dei (AT: Gold, DE: Gold)
  • 2012: Rex Gloriae
  • 2015: Salus Advenit
  • 2017: May the road

Compilations

  • 2018: the best

Video albums

  • 2012: "Spiritus Dei - The Live Concert from Altötting"
  • 2012: Rex Gloriae - A life for God and people

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about Rex Gloriae at www.universal-music.de
  2. ↑ Three pop priests now also in Germany
  3. ↑ Boarding school of the Archabbey of Sankt Ottilien
  4. ^ Songs by P. Andreas Schätzle
  5. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH
  6. ↑ Gold & Platinum
  7. ↑ https://www.musikindustrie.de/markt-bestseller/gold-/platin-und-diamond-auszeichnung/datenbank

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